Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome

1797

French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running aground, resulting in over 900 deaths.

1815

War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.

1822

The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.

1830

The Great Fire of New Orleans begins.

1833

United States President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.

1840

The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.

1842

Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

1847

The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican–American War in California.

1869

National convention of black leaders meets in Washington, D.C.

1893

The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.

1893

U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.

1895

First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war’s opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.

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